placens
Dictionary entries
- Entry →placeo, placere, placui, placitus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Taking Dative
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
please, satisfy, give pleasure to (with dat.);; it is pleasing/satisfying, gives pleasure; is believed/settled/agreed/decided;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- L
Liber XIX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...securus et ob ipsa quae aliis displicent sibi placens, qui profectum suum vita aestimet et tantum scire..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...male appetere, etiam si magister eius sibi placens sit. Nec uno loco consistit, sed venit <raro; scit..." - M
Liber Tertius
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...quod non expetendum sit, aut expetendum, quod non placens, aut, si id, non etiam diligendum; ergo et probandum..."